"The Davis method involves two parts: The first (1) -- Orientation Counseling -- establishes a stabilizing focal point for "the mind's eye" the vantage point from which the mind perceives the senses (except for taste).

It
is a point from which vision, the dominant sense, establishes a
viewpoint, like a camera in the mind when one is reading or imagining
something. A dyslexic's mind, does not have a stationary focal
point. Looking at a letter or word, Davis says, "is like a helicopter
buzzing around, doing surveillance on a building. This is the disorientation function hard at work, trying to recognize the object."

The optimum location for this mental viewpoint or mind's eye is a few inches to a foot above and behind the head on the centerline of the body.
Focusing the mind from this orientation spot (which is part of what
clients are taught to do) shuts off the distorted perceptions of
dyslexia, he says."

The second (2) component
of the Davis Method is called Symbol Mastery, a multi-sensory approach
to learning letters, words, numbers, punctuation marks and math
symbols. It involves creating the letters, in 3-D, from clay. "To a
dyslexic, a word has three parts -- what it means, what it looks like
and what it sounds like. The clay model is for the meaning in picture
form,"

Source: Living with Dyslexia, The Davis Method claims a high
rate of success in teaching dyslexics to read. (Mia Stainsby) Southam
Newspapers; Vancouver Sun Link

Reflection of "The Alpha-Channel" on this Theory / Method:

When Davis says:

- "A dyslexic's mind, does not have a stationary focal
point. Looking at a letter or word, Davis says, "is like a helicopter
buzzing around, doing surveillance on a building." We can compare this to point 3 - Cross-over III of Dyslexics with Blur (Db) , the search around for the right connection.

- "This mental viewpoint or mind's eye is a few inches to a foot above and behind the head on the centreline of the body." When we look at "Step 9" of the Masking Alpha Channel -topic we see that the different separations of the Alpha-Channel makes our visual input go from blurry -> normal -> gap, as would by adjusting our Focus Point. Davis has found a way to program our brain to change this Focus Point.

- "It involves creating the letters, in 3-D, from clay." at point 5 - Conclusion of Dyslexics with Blur (Db) we see that these Dyslexics need a volumetric way to process information, by using Clay he has found an alternative way to teach kids this approach.

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the above subjects.